"incredibly impressed by your piece, especially the intensity you achieve through your various textures.”

— Nate Barnett/Ariadne Lih, Uncommon Music Festival

Rich Campbell

In Those Years, No One Slept

for SATB choir a cappella

The text of “In Those Years, No One Slept” is a scene from a time of conflict/war, by Romanian-American immigrant Claudia Serea. The score is at once rhythmic and exciting, haunting and unsettling. It was a winner of the 2018 Uncommon Music Festival Composition Competition. It is accessible for all fine high school, collegiate and community choral ensembles. Performers are encouraged to present this work in a more dramatic fashion than usual, “within (or surrounding) the audience.”